Category: News

Alongside the official Magna Carta 800th Embroidery on display at the museum until June, you can also take a look at a selection of the commemorative souvenirs created as part of the project. These items can be Read more…

Local resident, Ivan Fear, recalls his time on the railways and shares his memories with us at Egham Museum to co-inside with the current temporary exhibition, ‘The Railway Comes To Egham’ which runs until September. Read more…

Egham Museum is delighted to be working with Charlotte Young, PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). The title of Charlotte’s thesis is ‘The gentry are sequestred all’: An investigation into the implementation, impact and Read more…

In April 2016, Sarah Corn begun her new role as the Museum’s part time Curator. Sarah is not new to curation, having been the Curator of East Grinstead Museum for over four years. She also works as Read more…

Egham Museum is delighted to announce that it has received £28,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an an exiting new project called Migration and Memory: Exploring Prehistory through Oral History. Celebrating the nationally Read more…

Egham Museum has two job openings in the New Year. We are looking to appoint a new Curator (funded by a grant from Runnymede Borough Council) and a Project Manager for our Memory and Migration Read more…

On Wednesday 26th August Egham experienced very heavy rainfall, which resulted in extensive flooding in the museum gallery. Thankfully, due to the post-renovation layout, new display cases and luck, only three artefacts, historic prints, were water damaged. Read more…

Egham Museum’s ‘Our Street at War’ project is now on HistoryPin. The museum was awarded £1,700 from the Heathrow Community Fund to launch the project to commemorate the First World War. ‘Our Street at War’ Read more…

Egham Museum is delighted to announce the award of a grant of £6,000 from Heathrow Airport to create a Magna Carta internship. The internship will be a 12 month placement in which a student will Read more…

Egham Museum and the Runnymede Art Society are planning an exciting exhibition for the summer of 2015 showcasing the evolution of rights from Magna Carta to modern day. A series of artworks will be produced Read more…

As a teaching museum, providing opportunities for students and recent graduates to gain experience, develop skills and devise, develop and deliver their own projects goes to the core of what we do. Here are some Read more…

“Illogical and absurd”, “limited in their scope of social responsibility”: this is David Fleming’s assessment of, and warning to, museums that do not move beyond their traditional role of collecting, preserving and researching. It is Read more…